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...that. In London King-Emperor George V presided at a special cabinet meeting. Two British cruisers were sent racing to Shanghai from Singapore. Artillery and infantry were ordered up from Hongkong. French troops barricaded their concession against Japan. An Italian destroyer landed 150 marines. Even Portugal did her bit. She owns the little peninsula and famed gambling city of Macao in China. With her boilers wheezing bravely the 36-year-old Portuguese cruiser Adamastor made her way out of Macao. Shanghai bound...
Last December, St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie went into involuntary orthodoxy. The church rents and investments had gone down in the Depression, leaving no more money for pageantry. This, by a curious bit of ecclesiastical weaseling. healed the breach last week between Bishop Manning and Dr. Guthrie...
...collar. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett wears a comical silver rabbit when he sings, Tenor Gigli a little gold bell his daughter once pinned on his pajamas. Violinist Jascha Heifetz hates to admit that he is superstitious about his ring with the Ceylon ruby but Soprano Lucrezia Bori is not one bit ashamed of the little gold key she wears pinned to her garter. She calls it her "key to happiness...
Mental Healers narrates the life-history, describes the practices of three such doctor-priests?the discoverers of Mesmerism, Christian Science, Psychoanalysis. Franz Anton Mesmer (1733-1814) started the snowball rolling with a bit of magnetized iron. In 1774 Maximilian Hell, astronomer of the Society of Jesus, fashioned a magnet which, on application, cured a lady's stomach trouble. Mesmer tried similar tricks with Hell magnets himself; to his amazement they worked. An enormous practice sprang up at Mesmer's Vienna home. Soon, however, he discovered that the magnet was unnecessary, that he could cure his patients by merely touching them...
...England, according to reports, there is little excitement--less, it seems, than in the United States. Difference in the Eastern and Western interpretations of catastrophe makes what we might call war a bit of large-scale policing to the Orientals. It is intelligent to discuss the crisis in terms of proper proportion. It is unintelligent to become worked up over nothing more substantial than an impressively warlike front page, bearing antique military photographs and often pitifully weak news articles; all these appear under headlines that clearly stamp the issue at its true value...